Do not call me “man”, “dude” or “bro”.
I realize that a lot of people have come to think of them as non-gendered colloquialisms, but they are still obviously rooted in maleness, and thus I don’t want them attributed to me.
Please and thank you.
Or mate or lad or any other designator that has a history of association with men.
Mate? The rest are gendered terms that we, society, often use non-genderedly, but mate just means friend… It’s a slightly boyish term, but in the same way that tomboys are boyish.
Obviously, I wouldn’t use any term that someone doesn’t want used for them, I’m just a bit baffled.
As a femme, I get pretty insulted when people use ‘blokey’ terms to refer to me.
Huh. I didn’t realise ‘blokey’ (as you call them) terms would be offensive to femme people. I guess as a not-very-femme person who hangs out with mostly also-not-very-femme people, I just use words like mate and think of my friends as mates.
Are there any femme/universal equivalents?
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You say that we are degendering man-bro-dude then, but what about the female counterpart of those words? Would you ever...
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totally understandable why...trans woman wouldn’t want
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Dude, bro, chill the fuck out.
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can’t forget this guy: or the Holy Broman Empire or Broseph of Arimathea you know, all those bros of history
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‘Bro’ ‘dude’ ‘man’ etc are so genderless now, most people just say them without thinking. I say it to people I don’t...
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I am adoring that Anne Broleyn. Yessss.
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I just use dude as a general exclamation these days. I agree that it doesn’t matter, but if someone doesn’t want to be...
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Slow your roll, Brodysseus.
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I think… It’s actually kind...we’re degendering dude-man-bro? So yeah,
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I call everyone Babe, BB, love, bro, broski, chump (yes, everyone), sweetcakes, lover, and max. I call everyone all of...
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Now this is something that has come to my attention. I’m a friendly guy and sometimes, I want to use a word to the same...
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(if you wanna pull that thats cool but then id like to voice my opinion i dont like being called cute or adorable im a...
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